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Academician

EUROPEAN ACADEMY

OF SCIENCES OF UKRAINE

Kent A. Ono

EUASU Academician. Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Utah. He conducts critical and theoretical research of print, film, and television media, specifically focusing on representations of race, gender, sexuality, class, and nation. He is an author with a significant body of work, including numerous scientific papers and books, and he has also co-edited and edited several books.

Kent A. Ono is EUASU Academician, Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Utah. Professor Ono conducts critical and theoretical research of print, film, and television media, specifically focusing on representations of race, gender, sexuality, class, and nation. 

Dr. Ono served as the chair of Utah's Department of Communication between 2012 and 2017, directed the Asian American Studies Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 2002 to 2007, and directed the Cultural Studies Program at the University of California at Davis from 1999 to 2002, in addition to establishing the Asian American Cultural Politics Research Cluster at UC Davis in 1997. 

He wrote the proposal to create the journal, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, played a key role in proposing, coordinating, and chairing the Critical and Cultural Studies Division of NCA from 2000 to 2001, chaired the Asian Pacific American Caucus of NCA in 1996-1997, co-chaired the Asian Pacific American Caucus of the Society for Cinema Studies (1999-2001); and has planned several conferences. He is past editor of the journal Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies. 

Kent Ono is an accomplished author with a substantial body of work, which encompasses numerous scientific papers and books, one of which is Contemporary Media Culture and the Remnants of a Colonial Past (Peter Lang, 2009). In addition to his authorship, he has co-edited and edited several books, including Asian American Studies after Critical Mass (Blackwell, 2005) and A Companion to Asian American Studies (Blackwell, 2005).

He has contributed articles to numerous journals including: Communication Monographs, Critical Studies in Media Communication, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, Communication Inquiry, Western Journal of Communication, Philosophy and Rhetoric, Amerasia Journal, and Journal of Asian American Studies.

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Critical Rhetorics of Race (by Kent A. Ono, edited by Michael G. Lacy)

According to many pundits and cultural commentators, the U.S. is enjoying a post-racial age, thanks in part to Barack Obama's rise to the presidency. This high gloss of optimism fails, however, to recognize that racism remains ever present and alive, spread by channels of media and circulated even in colloquial speech in ways that can be difficult to analyze.
In this groundbreaking collection edited by Michael G. Lacy and Kent A. Ono, scholars seek to examine this complicated and contradictory terrain while moving the field of communication in a more intellectually productive direction. 
An outstanding group of contributors from a range of academic backgrounds challenges traditional definitions and applications of rhetoric.

Asian Americans and the Media (by Kent A. Ono, Vincent N. Pham)

In this engaging and accessible book, Ono and Pham summarize key scholarship on Asian American media, as well as lay theoretical groundwork to help students, scholars and other interested readers understand historical and contemporary media representations of Asian Americans in traditional media, including print, film, music, radio, and television, as well as in newer media, primarily internet-situated. 
Since Asian Americans had little control over their representation in early U.S. media, historically dominant white society largely constructed Asian American media representations. In this context, the book draws attention to recurring patterns in media representation, as well as responses by Asian America. 

Contemporary Media Culture and the Remnants of a Colonial Past

The book examines contemporary representations of colonialism, by developing a historically and culturally specific theory of neocolonialism in U.S. media culture. 
Noting how colonialism never officially ended in the United States, Kent A. Ono draws together race, gender, sexuality, and nation to examine neocolonialism in popular media narratives. 
The book asks, «What are the lingering traces within contemporary culture that provide evidence not only of what colonialism was but also of what it continues to be today?» Offering five case studies on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the sale of the Seattle Mariners, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Pocahontas, and Star Trek: The Next Generation―and providing current media examples in the introduction and conclusion, the book documents the persistence of colonialism in media culture.